Need to implement an in house tape backup solution.

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I just started at a company and they want to implement an in house backup system using tapes. Currently we have 2 HP Proliant dl160g6 servers running VMware ESXi with 2 VM's per server.

What was recommended to me from HP was a BL536B HP 1/8 G2 1 LTO-5 3000 SAS Tape Autoloader, and a SAS card in one of the VMware ESXi hosts to back up both hosts.

"The Auto Loader solution will have you install the P212 HBA i nto one of the DL160G 6 servers, you will then use the backup software to back up to that server, which will then back up to the tape auto loader. This device holds 1 tape drive, and 8 tapes. "

﻿I want to make TIBs of the VM's individually. Is it possible to put each VM on a separate tape and would I control this in Acronis? I am new to tapes and have used Acronis before but not like this.